The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-11-26
CURRENT TOPICS.

PAPER doors are said to be increasing in
popularity.
SHERIFF MATsoS got the drop on the
Anarchists.
PARSONS was the only American among
the Anarchists.
NINA VAN zAYpr SPIES must now be .
widow by proxy.
SAN Francisco has public school espe-
eially for Chinese.
THE latest French dress requires two
persons to put it on.
GENERAL BUTLER will give Colby Univer-
sity handsome fountain.
AN earnest warfare against high hats in
;heaters is under way in Paris.
Mrs. GENERAL LOGAN has sold the Logan
homestead in Chicago for si0,SOO
The Empress Of Brazil is about to maze
pious pilgrimage to Palestine.
TOPEKA, Kan, will expend onc-fourth Of
million dollars on the sewer system.
FATHER MoGLYNN will stump England,
Scotland and Ireland for the Henry George
idea.
WATER is so scarce around Rocky Hill,
Conn, that the babies are bathed in hard
cider.
LOVERS lamps are sold in Boston. They
are warranted not to burn more than two
hours.
CANADA expects to furnish homes to a
large number OF Iceland emigrants this
winter.
A MAN in West Dover Hundred, Del,
sold his vote for two pumpkins at recent
election.
1yyr ,hr,,t tpto
tinued use of the Turkish bath will cure
inebriates.
CHICAGO breathes easier now that five Of
her distinguished citizens have retired
from business.
SEVERE weather has set in at st. Peters
burg and vessels are leaving to avoid be.
ting ice-bound.
One thousand coke ovens are being built
st Birmingham, Ala, and two thousand in
Pennsylvania.
A TRAMP, who has been in durance vile
at Doylestown, Pa, gives his name az
Smith Nobody.
CHICAGO passed through the fiery ordeal
attending the execution of the Anarchists
with much credit.
AN Atlanta woman has been kept in Jail
fourteen months over her entence through
Q clerks blunder.
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN, NJ p, is fifty-one
years of age, has been married twice, and
is now widower.
In great many cases the hardware
manufacturers in New England are run
ming day and night.
j. RANDOLPH TUCKER is to receive S., 900
for the effort he made in behalf of the
Chicago Anarchists.
MORE than SO, 900 600 ballots for the recent
election were printed and distributed in the
city of New York alone.
LINGG's terrible fate is warning to
smokers. If you must smoke don't smoke
dynamite cartridges or loaded candles.
VIM. WALLIS, aged sixty, died ut Hough-
ton, Mich, from the effects of bite re.
ceived from the teeth of an insane man.
THE name "Sick Man." by which Turkey
is often referred to, was applied to that
country by the Gar Nicholas, January "A,
1854
Boston has cut down the hack and cab
fares to thirty-fve cents for a single
service by night or day within a reasonable
circuit
EUROPE is said to look with misgivings
upon the possible accession of Prince Will
liam to the German throne, because he is
"mere boy"
THERE are thieves enough in England to
make u considerable city all by them selves.
Late statisticians figure out there are at
least 900 of them.
PHILADELPHIA has bond for $50, 600 exc
cuted by the Baltimore & Ohio Telegraph
Company to secure this city against the
evil OF telegraph consolidation.
SECRETARY BAYARD hints that he has an
eye on the enterprising woman correspond.
ent who sends out the semi-occasional re-.
port that he is about to be married.
The Audubon Society for the protection
of birds, founded in February, 1885, has at
tained q membership roll Of 10000 repre-
senting all parts Of the United States and
Canada.
A COTTON oil mill at Little Rock, Ark,
which cost s, 0O0, 900, is crushing 800 tons of
seed daily. A 81, 900 ,00O cotton mill is going
up ut Galveston, and $500, ,0O0 cotton mill
at Dallas.
PATRICK KALLAHER, wharfmaster at
Memphis, is the most indicted man in the
country, tho grand jury having recently
struck him forty nine times for embezzle.
ment and larceny.
1T is rumored that overtures have been
made for the purchase of the Atlantic
cables by the British Government. The
lines to be combined with the English DOS.
tai telegraph system.
LAWYERS who have made tho subject q
study say that statistics show that the
average number Of years which a man
whose death sentence is committed to i'm.
prisonment for life has to serve is less than
ten.
A WISE and witty Frenchman once made
answer to an argument against the death
penalty by saying that he was strongly in
favor Of abolishing capital punishment,
"lf Messieurs les murderers will set us the
example"
A California brickmaker recently discoy.
cred gold in the composition of his brick
clay. He sold out Immediately at twenty.
Eve cents per brick. The houses made of
these brick are being torn down for the
gold in them.
THE exact vote given for the Prohibition
ticket in the State of New York has not
yet been made public. The report is, how.
ever, that it will exceed 10000. This would
be an increase of 400 over the vote polled
by that party last year.
COLONEL TAYLOR, United States Minister
TO Liberia, is heartily tired of that coun.
try. He says that fully one-half the voters
In the republic are office holders, and that
the military companies contain only two
or three privates apiece.
THE Grand Rabbi Of India won first prize
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